Novice level class (some knowledge of colors, foods, or animals is helpful)
In this fourth class, we start with questions that will drive our focus to describe ourselves, who we are and what we wear, what we do and like to do, activities, our favorite movies, games, and foods. This is a 10-week class complimenting the ebooks (ABC’s 140 Sight Words in English / Spanish by Diana Di Tolla, 25 pages of pictures/text/audio.  Purchase the ebook on iTunes.)   
Our focus is creating comprehensible input using sentences with simple grammar in Spanish that follows the ABCs to promote conversation and understanding.  Learning is focused on speaking accompanied with visual cues, imagery, and repetition.  This fun and engaging class will teach useful vocabulary to get your child conversing in Spanish.  
Weekly, we add to our conversation collection a new question and explore the many ways to answer it with a variety of vocabulary.  Using words in English and Spanish for each letter, we cover most of the alphabet.  ABCs in Spanish! covers Letters A-G, ABCs in Spanish 2! covers Letters H-P, ABCs in Spanish 3! Includes Q-Z, and ABCs in Spanish! 4 reviews the alphabet with questions/sentences.  Review of previous vocabulary is included as well as a daily presentations, all the way to the final week of class.
Each class introduces vocabulary from the ebook and we will practice: pronouncation (how to produce the sounds) and create a simple sentence in context.  Also, about 10 minutes at the beginning of class will be to review previously learned vocabulary.  Ten minutes on new vocabulary, with 5-10 minutes for review with a follow-up activity.
Week 1-2:  Who are you?
Week 3-4:  Describing yourself
Week 5-6:  What do you like to do?  What don’t you like to do?
Week 7-8:  What do you do? (frequency words)
Week 9-10: review + final project / presentations
Interaction (speaking and listening) is guided by the teacher and students will be prompted to volunteer for practice using simple commands (circling, pointing to, repeating vocabulary words.)  Students will repeat after the teacher and practice speaking with visual cues or hints from the teacher.  Students will speak individually and as a whole class as they practice.  Eventually, the students will be the ones asking as they practice being the teacher.  This is a very organic process, very much like we learned our first language, and struggling is a normal part of learning.  Feeling discouraged is NOT part of the process.  My students’ find they will understand more than they can explain because of the visual cues and repetition that I use as the instructor.  As students get more independent, and they learn from each other, they will retain the vocabulary, which will enable them to start creating simple sentences, and then sentences with more complexity.  I am tall, funny, and curious.  I am not patient.  I like to swim.  Dogs are my favorite animal. My mom is nice and affectionate.
Getting students to use Spanish and be independent is what I do best.  Class size maximum is 5 students per class to ensure a lot of personal attention.  Let's have fun while we learn this beautiful and amazing language!